I dearly like the west,
For there the bonnie laddie lives,
The laddie I lo'e best.
There wild woods grow, and rivers row
By mony a fleecy flock,
But day and night my fancy's flight
Is ever wi' my Jock.
After reading these famous stanzas in their amended form our women poets may perhaps take heart and emulate them: to the immense delight of their fiancés, who like to be wooed as well as to woo, and have never shied very much at adulation.